Thomas J Misa

Biographic Data

ID109485
NAMEThomas J Misa
GIVEN NAMESThomas J
FAMILY NAMEMisa
SIGNATUREMISA T J
AFFILIATIONSIllinois Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Dynamics of Gender Bias within Computer Science

    Thomas J MisaARTICLEInformation & Culture2024

    A new dataset ( N = 7,456) analyzes women’s research authorship in the Association for Computing Machinery’s founding thirteen special interest groups (SIGs), a proxy for computer science. ACM SIGs expanded between 1970 and 2000; each experienced increasing women’s authorship. But diversity abounds. Several SIGs had less than 10 percent women authors, while university computing centers (SIGUCCS) exceeded 40 percent. Three SIGs experienced acceler…

  • Gender Bias in Big Data Analysis

    Thomas J MisaARTICLEInformation & Culture2022

    This article combines humanistic “data critique” with informed inspection of big data analysis. It measures gender bias when gender prediction software tools (Gender API, Namsor, and Genderize.io) are used in historical big data research. Gender bias is measured by contrasting personally identified computer science authors in the well-regarded DBLP dataset (1950–80) with exactly comparable results from the software tools. Implications for public …

  • Dominance of the Digital (1990–2016)

    Open AccessThomas J MisaARTICLEHoST - Journal of History of…2019References: 1

    This talk presents the theme that anchors the new third edition of Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present , which is organized around technical-economic-political “eras” spotlighting the long-term interactions of technology and culture. The book’s first edition (2004) concluded with an optimistic assessment of global culture, then added a pessimistic assessment of systemic risk (2011). The eras point …

  • For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution

    Christopher Tozzi, Christopher J Tozzi et al.BOOKFor Fun and Profit2017

  • To the Editor

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    To the Editor Thomas J. Misa I've been a big fan of T&C's essay reviews of works in our field. Generally, I think the scholarly community is well served by longer, more detailed appraisals than the 750 words or so demanded by the book review genre and permitted by the available space. But I am disappointed with Josef Konvitz's recent essay review of our edited volume Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities (April 2010, 474-76). I can't be …

  • When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America (review)

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    Reviewed by: When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America Thomas J. Misa (bio) When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America. By David E. Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x+291. $27.95. David Nye provides us a much-needed historical review and cultural appraisal of “blackouts” in twentieth-century America, focused on the notable New York City experiences with the blackouts of 1965 and 1977 as well as the gr…

  • David F. Noble, 22 July 1945 to 27 December 2010

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    David F. Noble, 22 July 1945 to 27 December 2010 Thomas J. Misa (bio) It was a surreal experience seeing Billy Elliot the day I learned of David Noble’s unexpected and untimely passing. That evening, the popular musical’s commodification of working-class life struck the wrong note. Adapted from the 2000 film by screenwriter Lee Hall, with uplifting music composed by Elton John, Billy Elliot tells the story of a young working-class boy in a coal-m…

  • Findings follow framings: Navigating the empirical turn

    Open AccessThomas J MisaARTICLESynthese2009References: 19

  • Transforming the International System: Geoffrey L. Herrera's Technology and International Transformation

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture2008

    Transforming the International System:Geoffrey L. Herrera’s Technology and International Transformation Thomas J. Misa (bio) For many years historians of technology have been arguing that technology needs to be understood in a contextual and historical framework, situated within ongoing social and political processes; above all, that it is not to be understood as an exogenous force with outside impacts. This message is beginning to seep into main…

  • Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (review)

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture2007

    Reviewed by: Technology Matters: Questions to Live With Thomas J. Misa (bio) Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. By David E. Nye . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. xi+282. $27.95. Most everyone who sees it loves Google Earth, but nearly all of us are uneasy about globalization and global warming, and we sense that technology has something to do with it. Help is at hand. In Technology Matters, David Nye "addresses general questions t…

  • Networking Europe: Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850–2000 – Edited by Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser

    Open AccessThomas J MisaARTICLEThe Economic History Review2007

  • Modernity and Technology

    Thomas J Misa, Philip Brey et al.BOOKModernity and Technology2004

  • Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901-2001 (review)

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

    For two decades or so, the question asked by historians of the American steel industry was: Who has the best angle on accessing the long-closed archives of U.S. Steel? For in these voluminous corporate papers were the necessary raw materials for a definitive history of steel in the American century. In recent years, Kenneth Warren gained access to and successfully mined the closely related riches of the Frick papers, first for his Triumphant Capi…

  • Theories of Technological Change

    Open AccessThomas J MisaARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…1998

  • Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913 . Sarah Bradford Landau , Carl W. Condit

    Thomas J MisaARTICLEIsis1997

  • American Iron, 1607-1900 . Robert B. Gordon

    Thomas J MisaARTICLEIsis1997

  • A Social History of Truth by Steven Shapin

    Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

    238 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE nine: the body divine (from biblical text to early modern saint); the body natural (from Greek treatises to Harvey); the body and destiny (from Aristotle through Freud and Masters andJohnson to a poem by W. D. Snodgrass); mind and body (from Hippocratic to Freudian, including the account of “Anna O”); disease and purity (from lep­ rosy to the germ theory); the healer (from Hippocratic Oath to Sara Lawrence …

  • A Social History of Truth

    Thomas J Misa, Steven ShapinARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

  • A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925

    W David Lewis, Thomas J MisaARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925. By Thomas J. Misa. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xxviii, 367 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-4967-5.) Get access W. David Lewis W. David Lewis Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945543 Publ…

  • A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America

    Edwin T Layton, Thomas J MisaARTICLETechnology and Culture1996

  • Managing technology in society

    Arie Rip, Johan Schot et al.BOOKManaging technology in society1995

  • Machines are Frozen Spirit: The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century: A Weberian Interpretation

    Thomas J Misa, Mikael HardARTICLEThe American Historical Review1995Cited by: 1

  • Discovery, Innovation, and Risk: Case Studies in Science and Technology . Newton Copp, Andrew Zanella

    Thomas J MisaARTICLEIsis1994

  • From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830-1920 . Paul Israel

    Thomas J MisaARTICLEIsis1993

  • When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America

    Thomas J Misa, Thomas Misa et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1993